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The Clinton News Record, 1915-09-09, Page 3AN AVALANCHE OF SHELLS POURED INTO GERMAN LINES General Offensive Foreshadoived of French and British on the Western Front A despatch from Paris says: The French have been ^pouring an ava- lanche of shells into the German lines In the west., It is not believed that this ammunition would be used simply for the purpose of damaging the Ger- man trenches, and, therefore, an early general offensive is looked for. Asphyxiating gas was need without Success by the Germans in an attack against Lingo and Sehratzniaennele, In the Vosges. After releasing the gas the Germans charged the French positions, but were driven back. Elee-• Where on the French front there were no infantry actions, though heavy cannonading occurred at several places. German aviators violated 01••••••••••••••••1. • FURTHER VICTORIES IN THE CAMEROONS Swiss territory for the fourth time. Five German military aeroplanes flew inside the Swiss frontier opposite the French town of Dells. Although un- der fire from French artillery, the aeroplanes turned back. One dam- aged machine came down near -the Swiss village of Buix, but afterwards took to the air and escaped towards Alsace. The Municipal Council is reeking arrangements with the Gbvernment. for an official commemoration of the Battle of the Marne, in which the German advance through France in the early weeks of the war was end- ed. The celebration will be held on September '12. Germans are Retreating in Great Disorder After a Series of Defeats. A despatch from Paris says: Fight- ing continues,. in the Cameroons, the German colony in Western Africa which the British and French have been attempting since the early part of the war to wrest from the Ger- mans. The Ministry of Colonies gave diet a statement to -day announcing further victories. It fcillows: "French forces in the eastern and south-eastern Carneroons are continu- ing a vigorous offensive in the direc- tion of Yaunde, capital of the colony. The German troops were defeated in a series of engagements and are re- treating in great disorder. "Many of the native German troops surrendered, with their arms and ether equipment. A party of these deserters while on their way to our post at Aradmakei encountered a com- pany of Germans, who attempted to bar their way. The deserters defeat- ed the Germans, and also attacked a German post at Sangamelina. "Our right column, coming from the north, attacked the strongly -fortified positions at the Dume station, simul- taneously with an attack from our southern column. The Germans were defeated completely. They abandoned their positions, and in retreat threw most of their supplies into the river and allowed natives to pillage other abandoned stores. In evacuating Duma the enemy set it on fire, making a stand on a hill overlooking the town. This position, which was defended with artillery and machine guns, was carried by assault by one of our offi- cers and by prisoners."' EN'FANGLED IN A ROPE AND KILLED BY HORSES A despatch from London says: Meath by misadventure" is the ver- dict at the inquest held at Shorncliffe on Pte. William Fishburn Smith, Lon- don, Ont., of the 2nd divisional caval- ry, who was killed while leading horses. Smith's leg was caught in a rope with which he was leading the horses, and he lost his balance owing tolhe bevies rearing. He had been studying for the ministry previous to enlistment. None Too Good. The minister of a small country flock was discussing with an illiterate member of his church religious topics of varying interest. The member ex- pressed the suggestion that even the best were none too good in this vale of sin and tribulation. "You believe, then," interposed the preacher, "in the doctrine pf total depravity?" "Yes, sir, I do, responded the mem- ber, "that is, where it is lived up to." I Y�fWesTHer� is Back From France PETER RETLEDGE youngest. on ofaanada to reach thO lidos line 'In enders is Peter. • atledlee, eeieo 'became a stow.; Way on a troopship after his ijxeb brothere luta Crossedehe seal • was ogrritaltimattagt audi eaerveda in the ,trenches until be Was ordered home with inerdidedi pals, who are is Toronto with, A COMPARISON OF FORCES FOR WAR CANADA'S RESPONSIBILITY. From Toronto Daily News. In a year's time we have seen our army, come into being and grow into a force of very considerable size and efficiency; but this is no time to rest on our laurels, much less to indulge a tendency towards self-congratulation. Our duty now is to appreciate the full extent of our responsibilities and make adequate provision -for dis- charging them. The United Kingdom entered the war with a naval force of not less than 225,000, and with a military force of at least 200,000. Since the outbreak there have been added to the military force, of completely trained and equipped soldiers, not less than 500,000. Adding to these the soldiers which the United Kingdom now has in the making, in all stages of equip- ment and training, numbering not less than 1,500,000, the total is at least 2,525,000. The figures are ap- proximately only, but they will serve. Our population being about one- sixth the population of the United Kingdom, we can readily ascertain the minimum number of men that we should now have available for service if we were doing our full share. In round figures, we should have a force of at least 400,000 men. Turning from the ideal to the real, we may estimdte the strength of the Canadian forces as follows: - Adding the few thousands we had to begin with to those organized dur- ing the year, the total number of trained and equipped troops is not mote than 60,000. Our incompletek trained and equipped troops will num- ber not more than an additional 100,- 000; and that none of our fighting re- sources may be overlooked, we will add a naval force of 1,000, making a total of 161,000. Our ideal minimum is 400,000, our real maximum is 161,00p. The result of our calculations need not make us down hearted. We are quite entitled to comfort ourselves with the thought that the original forces of the United Kingdom were incompdrably superior to ours and that the British Isles were much better supplied than we were with the means, both human and ma- terial, of creating a vast new army. But this will not alter the fact that in the past we have not done our full duty, and we are therefore under the greater obligation to respond to the call the Government is now making. Many of the initial difficulties con- nected with the raising of an. army have been overcome, and men are now being accepted for overseas servieg as rapidly as they present themselves for enlistment. Their pay, separation and other •allowances commence at bnce, and they are clothed, equipped and trained with all possible rapidity. But the real responsibility for the supply of men rests with the men themselves. To the man without de- pendents the call to service is well- nigh absolute, and it comes to the man with a job with precisely the same urgency as it does to the man without one. Your present job, im- portant as it may be, is as nothing in importance to the one your country has for you. The call comes next to those with others dependent on them, who would suffer if they, went. Some men in this position should go, others should not. No one may decide for any man but himeelf. But the free- dom of choice which is his carries with it a corresponding responsibility. If no man may say to you, "You ought to go," neither may you lay the responsibility of your staying on anyone but yourself. Your's is the choice. Stay if your conscience says so; but go if it says to go, for your Empire needs the men. THREAT FROM AUSTRIA TO MUNITION MAKERS A despatch ,to Amsterdam says: Following the example of Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Government now announces, according to • the Frankfurter Zeitung, that all Aus- trians and Hungarians in neutral countries, particularly the United States, are warned not to work in fac- tories producing war material for enemies of the Dual Monarchy. This newspaper says that violation of this decree is punishable by imprisonment of ten to twenty years, and even by capital punishment under certain con- ditions. SAYS BOSTON BARQUE FIRED ON BY U-BOAT A despatch from Boston says: The Americat barque Ruth Stark, owned in this city, was fired upon twice -by a German submarine, when 150 miles off Cape Clear, Ireland, according to the, report of her commander upon her arrival here from Liverpool. FINE HARBOR AT ZEEBRUGGE IS SHELTER FOR SUBMARINES Above is a generai view. of Zeebrugge, the German naval base on tal • Belgian coast. The exten,sive waterways provide an almost id haven for submarines. British warships have repeatedly shelled the( German works and vessels at Zeebrugge. Markets Of The World Breadstuffs. Toronto, Sept. '7. -Manitoba wheat -Old crop -No. 1 Northern, none of- fering; No. 2 Northern, $1.14 to' $1.16; No. 3 Northern, $1.09 to $1.11, track, lake ports. Manitoba oats -None offering. American corn -No, 2 yellow, 88%e, track, lake ports. Canadian corn -No. 2 yellow, nom- inal, track, Toronto. Ontario oats -Old: No. 2 white, 51 to 52e, nominal, according to freights outside; No. 3 white, 50 to 51e, ac- cording to freights outside; new oats, 40 to 42e. Ontario wheat -No. 2 winter, per car lot, $1.15; new, 96 to 98e; wheat slightly tough, 88 to 93c;sprouted or smutty, 75 to 86e, according to sam- ple. • Peas -No. 2, per ear lots, nominal, according to freights outside. Barley -Good malting barley, nom- inal; No. 3 feed, nominal; feed bar- ley, nominal, according to freights outside. Buckwheat -Car lots, nominal, ac- cording to freights outside, Rye -No. 2., nominal, according to freights outside. Manitoba flour -First patents,. in jute bags, $6.25; second patents, in jute bags, $5.'7.5; strong bakers', in jute bags, $5.65, Toronto;, in cotton bags, 10e more. Ontario flour -New Winter, 90 per cent. patents, $4, seaboard or To- ronto freights in bags, prompt ship- menitn mie ed -Car lots, delivered Mont- real freights -Bran, per ton, $26; shorts, per ton, $29; middlings„ $30; good feed flour, per bag, $1.85. Country Produce. Butter -Fresh dairy, 24 to 26e; in- ferior, 21 to 22c; creamery prints, 28% to 29c; do., solids, 26 to 28e. Eggs -No. 1, 23 to 24e per dozen, in case lots; extra at 26 to 27e. Honey -No. 1 light (wholesale), 10 to 11%e; do. retail, 12% to 15c. Combs (wholesale), per elem., No. 1, $2.50 to $3,• No. 2, $1.80 to $2. Poultry-Chickene, yearlings, dress- ed, 16 to 18c; Spring chickens, 20 to 21c; fowl, 12 to 13e; ducklings, 17 to 18e; turkeys, 23 to 25e. Cheese -Large, 15 to 15%e; do., twins, 15% to 15%e. Old cheese, 21%c. • Baled Hay and Straw. Baled hay, new -No. 1, ton, $17 to $19; No. 2, ton, $15 to $16; baled straw, ton, $7.50. Business he Montreal. Montreal, Sept. 7. -Corn -Ameri- can No. 2 yellow, 91 to 92c. Oats - Canadian Western, No. 8, 58e; extra No. 1 feed, 58c; No. 2 local white, 47c; No. 3 local white, 46e; No. 4 local white, 45e. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $6.35; seconds, $5.85; strong bakers', $5.65; Winter patents, choice, $5.50; straight roll- ers, $4.65 to $4.85; do., bags, $1.75 to $1.85. Rolled oats--Bbls., $6.25; do., bags, 90 lbs., $2.90 to $3. Bran, $27. Shorts, $28. Middlings, $83 to $34. Mouillie, $35 to $40. Hay -No. 2, per ton, car lots, $17.60 to $18.50. Cheese -Finest westerns, 12% to 13%c; finest easterns, 12% to 13c. Butter -Choicest creamery, 28% to 28%; seconds, 27% to 27%c. Eggs - Fresh, 27 to 28c; selected, 26e; No. 1 stock, 23c; No. 2 stock, 20c. Dressed hogs -Abattoir killed, $13.60 to $14.15. Pork -Heavy Canada short mess, bbls., 85 to 45 pieces, $29; Can- ada short-cut back, Wile., 45 to, 55 plebes, $28.50. Lard --Compound, tierces, 375 lbs., 10c; wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 10%,c; pure, tierces, 375 lbs., 11% to 12c; pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 12% to 13e. United States Markets. Minneapolis, Sept. 7. -Wheat -No. 1 hard, $1.03%; No. 1 Northern, 97c to $1.03; No. 2 Northern, 94 to $1; September, 92e; December, 92%e. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 75 to 75%c. Oats -No. 3 white, 32% to 33c. Flour (new wheat basis) -fancy patents, $5.90; first clears, $4; second clears, $3. ran, $19. . Duluth, Sept. 7. -Wheat -No. 1 hard, $1.02%; No. 1 Northern, 97%c to $1.02%; No. 2 Northern, 95%c to $1.00%; Montana No. 2 hard, 954ie bid; September, 94%e; December, 93% to 93%e asked. Linseed, cash, $1 . 62; September, $1 . 62% ; Decem- ber, $1.64 bid. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Sept. 7. -Best heavy steers, $8 to $8.25; butchers' cattle, choice, $7.60 to $7.75; do.,good, $7.30 to $7.45; do., medium, $0.40 to $7.10; do,, common, $5 to $5.65; butchers' bulls, choice, $6.80 to 1;7.25; do., good bulls, $5.90 to $6.25; do., rough bulls, $4.75 to $5.25; butchers' cows, choice, $6.50 to $7e do., good, $5.25 to $6; do., medium, $5 to $5.25; do., common, $4.50 to $5; feeders, good, $6.50 to $7.30; stockers, 700 to 900 lbs., $6.25 to $7.25; canners and cut- ters, $3.75 to $5; milkers, choice, each, $65 to $95; do., common and medium, each, $85 to $50; Springers, $50 to $95; light ewes, $6 to $6.75; do., bucks, $3.50 to $4.50; yearling lambs, $7 to $7.76; Spring lambs, cwt., $7.75 to $9; calves, $8 to $11; hogs, off cars, $9.40 to $9.65; do, fed and watered, $9.25 to $9.30; do., f.o.b., $8.90. Montreal, Sept. 7. -Butcher cows, good, $7.50 to $7.75; fair, $.7 to $7.25; fair, $7 to $7.25; medium, $6.50 to $6.75; butcher bulls, $5 to $7; can- ning bulls, $4 to $4.50 per cwt. Old sheep, 4%, to 5%c; and lambs, 7% to 8%c per pound. Hogs, select, $9.50; sows, $7.50, and stags, $5 to $6 per cwt., all weighed off ears. DENIES GERMAN WOMEN ARE LEFT TO MOB'S MERCY A despatch to London says: The Home Secretary has issued a denial of stateinents published in the United States that German women and chil- dren in London are being exposed to the fury of mobs, which are encour- aged by the police whenever they ven- ture out of doors, are prevented from buying food, and are compelled to subsist on what they can beg. The Home Secretary says that all German women desiring to return to Germany are given facilities for so doing, and that, together with their children, they receive the same. police 'protection as British subjects and similar relief from the guardians of the poor if they are destitute. It is added that access to hospitals on the same terms as Britishers are accorded German women and children when they are ill. PARENTS OF WAR HERO GET VICTORIA CROSS - • A despatch to Montreal says: The Victoria Cross won by the late Lance - Corporal Frederick Fisher, of the 13th battalion, at St. Julien, where he was killed, has been received by the hero's parents, 'Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Fisher, 576 Lansdowne Avenue, Westmount, accompanied. by a letter of apprecia- tion from the British War Office. The deceased soldier earned the distinction of the Cross by gallantly assisting with a machine gun, in covering the retreat of a battery, and later bring- ing his machine gun into action, un- der very heavy fire, in order to cover the advance of supports. It was while doing this 'he was killed. He was only 20 years of age. Will Lead Force Of South Africa BRIG,- GENE,RAL LUKIal,G1%. • 0.5.0 has been appointed to command the First Brigade of the South Afri- can Union Contingent -for the Eu- ropean war. lab is Commandant - General of the (lap° Colonial Forces, and in the recent cam- paign in German Southwest Africa commanded the 0th Mounted Bri- gade. It was to him that General Botha entrusted the addeg of tint surrender of the Gelman forces ALLIES CAPTURE TACTICAL POINT Recent Fighting in the Dardanelles Has Been of a Severe Character. A elespeteh frent London says; Fur- ther gains for the 'allied forces on the Gallipoli Penineula are chronicled in an official report received from Gen- eral Sir Ian Hamilton, commander-in- chief of the Britieh forces operating against the Turks. The report says: "Further 'fighting on the northern section of the line has resulted in the can:Aire of an important tactical point commanding the.Buyuk Anaf arta val- ley to the east and north and an ap- preciable gain of the ground occupied by the Australians and New Zealand army corps. "The fighting was almost entirely hand-to-hand and of a severe charac- ter. Very heavy losses were inflicted on the Turks, and three of their ma- chine guns, three trench mortars, 300 rifles, 500 bombs and a large quantity of small arms ammunition were cape tured by us." PRICELESS RUBBISH. Fortunes Made Out of the Tailings of Gold Mines. The tailings of the gold -mines of the Rand lave latterly proved nearly as valuable as the reef. A new treat- ment was discovered, and the tailings which encumbered the landscape for miles around suddenly became new mines. It was found that the amount of gold left in them was enormous. Many fortunes were made out of tail- ings alone. There has been much talk of cap- turing the German trade in aline dyes, a process of exploiting coal -tar, discovered by British chemists but de- veloped by German manufacturers. But in the earlier days of gaslighting the coal -tar was regarded as a horri- ble nuisance, and surreptitiously got rid of. Then the great discovery was made that all the hues of the rainbow dwelt in this dirty -looking stuff which men despised and threw away. To -day the by-products of coal -tar are counted by the dozen. In Lancashire alone cotton -waste has an annual value of fifteen millions sterling! It consists of fag -ends and sweepings and pickings and combings. Thousands of women are employed to divide this stuff into good, middling, and lead and it is sold at various prices for different purposes -paper- making, matting, surgical wadding, and, most of all, the making of shod- dy. Soap -boilers used to have great dif- ficulty in getting rid of a thick, evil - smelling liquid which was the chief by-product of their industry. They ran it into streams and sewers. Pre- sently someone began collecting it and refining it. The result was pure glycerine. A young man who had been reduced literally to his last cent was wander- ing aimlessly about the docks of Liverpool. He saw 'a lot of frowsy - looking stuff, the use of which nobody 'could tell him. It had come from South Africa three months before and had failed to find a purchaser. The young man made a bid of eigh- teenpence a pound, and bought the lot, three hundred bales. It was alpaca, the wool of a sort of "camel - like sheep. The purchaser's name was Titus Salt, the founder of Sal- taire, England. 0,4 THE DEATH OF PEGOUD IS OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED A despatch from Paris says: Re- ports of the death of Adolphe Pegoud, the famous aviator, have been official- ly confirmed. The news caused sin- cere sorrow among the French people, who regarded him as a hero. Pegoud, who was only 26 years of age, served five years in the French cavalry, fighting in the Morocco cam- paign. At the outbreak of the present war he joined the aviation corps as a private, bet soon gained a 'sub -lieu- tenant's commission because of his skill and daring. His exploits won him the Military Medal and the Mili- tary Cross. Pegoud brought down his sixth German aircraft on July 11. JACONA SUNK BY MINE, NOT BY A SUBMARINE A despatch from Montreal says: Officers of the Thomson Line freight- er Hurona, which arrived here, brought with them details of th sinking of the Montreal steamer Ja- come The cabled report that the jacona was sunk by a torpedo was denied. The Jacona struck a mine and sank in two minutes. Forty of the crew, including the 'entire engine - room staff, were drowned. Only Capt. Organ and the nine men who com- prised the night watch were saved, and they owed their lives to thcf chance that a boat was lying loose and floated away. Wondere of the World. The seven wonders of- the ancient world were the Pyramids of Egypt; the Tomb of the King of Carla; the From Erin's Green Isle NEWS BY MAIL FROM IRELAN/P'S GREEN, SHORES. Happenings in the Emerald Isle of , Intereet to All True Irish- men. Ireland's subscriptions to the war loan are said to amount to $60,000,- 000. At the Derry Harbor Board meet- ing it was reported that application had been made for $10,000 of war loan stock. - The Ulster division of Lord Kitek- ener's army was inspected at Malone, Belfast, by Major-General Sir Hugh MeCalmont. Lance -Corporal R. J. Casement, let Field Company Canadian Engineers, has been awarded the D.S.M. for con- spicuous gallantry wear Ypres. Typhus has broken out in the Dun- gloe district of County Donegal, and six sufferers have 'been admitted to the -fever hospital, at Glentree. • Mr. Edward G. Ilewson, of Castle Hewson, near Askeaton, was arrested by the constabulary charged with Shooting his servant, Ellen Costello°. A fresh recruiting appeal to the yoUnger men in the Irish Constabu- lary has been issued in a circular let- ter, addressed to Irish county inspec- tors. The death is announced at Kiltoon, Athlone, of Michael Coyne, a well- known angler and sportsman. He was aged 106 and retained his faculties to the end. . In the Southern Police Court at Dublin, John Dunne' a plasterer, and his wire, were sentfor trial on a charge of murdering a woman named Catherine Byrne. Inquiries among postal authorities have elicited the fact that applications amounting to $200,000 'have been made for War Loan Stock in the city of Kilkenny. An outbreak of black leg has oc- curred on the lands of the Congested District Board near Tursk, and al- ready about .twenty beasts have sue- sumbed to the disease. - At a meeting of the City and Coun- ty of Dublin Recruiting Committee it was stated that an application had been received from the Kingston dis- trict to form a "Pals' Platoon." It is mentioned that Lord Dunraveh has placed his reeidence Main, County Limerick, at the disposal of the Lord Lieutenant and his Excel- lency will take up his residence there shortly. The decapitated body of one of the crew of the Lusitania was washed ashore near Castlegregory. It was recognized as a Lusitarda victim by the name of the liner on the buttons of the clothes. Lively scenes took place at a meet- ing of Dublin Corporation during a debate °lea resolution demanding that the Home Rule bill should be put into operation for all Ireland on Septem- ber 17 next. The death of the oldest man in the County of Wexford, and perhaps in Ireland, has occurred when Geo. Franklin, a farmer, living at Coula- murray, Enniscorthy, passed away at the great age of 110 years. Intelligence has reached Tiede° that Ballinagroun House, the beauti- ful residence of Major J. MaeGilli- cuddy, Royal Munster Fusiliers, has been completely destroyed by fire, The damage is estimated at $85,000. At the inaugural sitting of the De- partmental Committee of Inquiry on the question of food production in Ire- land, the inquiry took the form -"To consider what steps should be taken by legislation or otherwise for the sole purpose of increasing the produc- tion of fried in Ireland." Under the patronage of the Lord Lieutenant and Lady Wimborne, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the French ambassador and the French Consul, a collection was taken in Dublin in aid of the Irish Hospital, which has been established at the front by Irish- women for wounded French soldiers, INVENTED BY ACCIDENT. How Some Useful Aids Grew From • the Unexpected. How to make starch from corn was discovered accidentally by Thomas Kingsford, a British mechanic. One day he threw a mess of corn meal into a garbage pail. Hi S wife emptied some lye into the same pail, and in the morning when he emptied the pail he was astonished to find a small quan- tity of starch at the bottom. Thomas I3olsover, a Sheffield me- chanic, was mending the handle of a knife made of copper and silver. He saw thee metals fuse together, and the idea of silver plating was born General, speaking at Middlesbrough, in his mind. He laid a thinpateo f England, on the 16th lilt., said he had silver on a heavier one of copper, and recently been at the front. Sir John heated them till the edge of the sil- French told him that in his view this n ver began to melt. He took them was a war of machinery, and that u - from the fire let them cool slightly, doubtedly was the impression which then rolled and hammered them to the was brought' away by everyone who desired thickness. This was the orig- studied the present campaign. aighnold Man e in of "Sheffield plate," all of which IGoerrmniaainis our soldiers could easily, but it was not the plating was invented, was made in this way until electro - soldiers they had to cope with. It was Cornelius Dubbel left a bottle of the artillery, the munitions, and the aqua regia (a mixture of nitric and enormously Powerful mechanical or_ muriatic acids) on a shelf. It fell ganization of the 'German army that over; the acid ran down over a win- they were up against. In a second dow and dropped into a bottle contain- speech, Mr. Samuel referred to the success of the War Loan, and stated that a few days ago, apart from the subscriptions which had come through the Bank of England, the beopla had subscribed through the Post Office - apart from 5s., 10s., and 11 vouchers -fifteen millions. He was now glad to be able to say that the figure had risen to twenty-four million, still ex- cluding all the subscriptions through the purchase of script vouchers the figures of which could.not yet be tuba. lated. JAPANESE TROOPS FOR DARDANELLES Inference Is Drawn From the Words of Mikado's Envoy to Italy. A despatch from Paris says: What appears to be an intimation 'that Jar' pan may co-operate in the aampaigb to force the Dardanelles is contained In an interview with Baron Hayaehi, Japanese Ambassador to Italy, sent to thee Petit Parisien by its Rome corree- "I cannot say much about that," the Baron is quoted as saying, in re- ply to a question regarding the Dar, danelles, "for we must not allow our enemiei to profit by information about the movements of troops." Discussing the peel Japan has played in the war, the Ambassador said: "We have not ceased to collet,- orate with our, allies to the, extent assigned to us. The world will be as- tonished when it knows what we have done, what we are doing and what we are willing to do. The Russians are nearest to us and we .can be most use- ful to them, Rest assured it is the greatest desire of Japan to assist • leivzeartyd.az in the sacred cause of civi- lization." LONG AND EMPTY PURSE. Several Things That Have Made the Outsider Marvel. ' The result of war, of any war, de- pends upon the ability to continue. "Pay, 'pay, pay!" When that ability becomes impaired. or Ceases so muit. the ability to continue to make war stop. The relative ability of the na- tions- at war in this respect have been under the closest scrutiny by the sharpest financial wits for months past, and the results arrived at may go a long way to explain several things that have made the outeider marvel, says the Scottish -American. For instance though it would verily appear that Germany is now at her highest pitch of success and achieve- ment, it would also appear that that does not appeal to those upon whom depend the financial arrangements for carryieg on the war. Though Ger- many is at her height these experts do not see how she can continue to go on as she has done -for which there must be a reason! Wall Street au- thorities, and there could hardly be better, have come to the conclusion, indeed, that however victorious Ger- many may seem at the present mo- ment .she is already beaten -because she is really bankrupt, or on the verge of bankruptcy. That will certainly make Germany, not Europe, "trem- ble"; for when her credit is assailed and she becomes financially, not to say morally, creditless, she may pre- pare for sudden collapse. The essen- tials which Germany cannot produce she must get from abroad and pay for with gold, her credit being under- mined. And gold has been disappear- ing in startling, rapidity from Ger- many. Thus bankruptcy faces the na- tion. On the other hand, financiers are equally convinced that the only na- tion capable of financing the war to a successful conclusion is Great Brit- ain. When the pursuance of war is reduced to a basis of this kind it means that to the one able to hold out longest, that is having the ability to continue to "pay, pay, pay!" long- er than the other fellow, there can be bat one end to it all; the other fel- low must succumb, The possibility, then, of a belliger- ent verging oh bankruptcy is what the foresighted and longsighted finan- ciers are seeing; and this may have convinced them that within the space of six months or a year at the longest Germany's collapse will be brought about from -within. The work of crush- ing her from without, therefore, need not, it may have been argued, be pushed with such feverish haste 'as had been planned. The shower of silver bullets from the well-equipped financial arsenals of the Allies will have its decisive ef- fect, just as the apparently mum - big rain of shell and bomb have been having their day. The victory will lie not with those possessing presently the most ammunition, but with the ones possessing the longest purse capable of serving the cause after the: other is exhausted. • IT IS A WAR OF MACHINERY. Powerful Mechanical Organization of the Germans. Mr. Samuel, the British Postmaster jug an extract of cochineal. This Temple V. Diana at Ephesus; the turned to a vivid scarlet. Dubbel Walls of Hanging Gardens of Baby- found that the acid -had dissolved Ion; the Colossus of Rhodes; the Ivory some of the tin of te window cas- and Gold Statue of Jupiter Olympus; big, and the combination had pen - the Pharos, or Watch Tower, hunt' at deiced the new color. A few experi- Alexandria by Ptolsmy Philadelphus, meats added the most brilliant color to. the list of dyes. King pf Egypt. Some one thinks the wonders of the world to -day are the Panama Canal, the Aeroplane, the Submarine, Wireless Telegraphy, the Gramophone, the Telephone, and the Airship. The Rake. A small henpecked, worried -looking man was about to take an examina- tion for life insurance. "You don't dissipate, do you?" asked the physi- cian as 'he made ready lei' the testi. "Not a fast liver, or anything of that sort?" The little man hesitated a moment, looked a bit frightened, then replied, in a small, piping voice -"I sometimes chew a little gum." At the declaration of war, the Brit- ish Army comprised 711,500 men, of whom, in Regulars and Reserves, 601,000 were in the British Isles. Holland Purchasing Aeroplanes A despatch from Naw York says: LienteCommander Henri G. Van Steyn, of the Dutch navy, was one of the arrivals on the steamer Noordem, from Rotterdam. He said he held a commission to purchase an unlimited quantity of aeroplanes -and hydro- planes for Holland from American manufacturers. Commander Van Steyn said that an of the machines will be used, by Holland as a part) of the national defence improve: emit now being undertaken there.